February news

 It's hard to believe the month of February is over!  We have been so busy, from Groundhog Day to Valentine's Day to the 100th Day! 

We made predictions about whether or not the groundhog would see its shadow...here are our results!

We had a fabulous Valentine's Day party, the kids had fun with the crafts, decorating the boxes, making the frames and the activity booklets!  Mrs. Burek, Mrs. Rahley, Mrs. Joseph, and Mrs. O'Brien did a great job!  The beautiful bouquet of flowers is still on my dining room table, what a gorgeous arrangement and thoughtful gesture.  Many thanks to you all!! 

The 100th day collections were all great!  Thanks for helping your child with his/her project.  So many great ideas...shirts, posters, and collections.  We had a lot of fun looking at all of them!

March will be filled with "lion and lamb" days, we are decorating our class bulletin board with them and will be keeping track of the weather!  I'm sure a sneaky leprechaun will some how find his way into our class too!

March conference sign ups will be sent home soon.  We are waiting to see if they will be in person or virtual, as soon as we are told I will send out a google doc.

Only 20 more days until spring!!!!

Beebots!

 A big thank you to Mrs. Farrahar and Mrs. Foley for talking to us about the importance of taking a break ("pausing") from technology!  We also got a chance to do some coding with the Beebots!  Working in groups we programmed our Beebots to travel around a map.  It was a lot of fun!

The kids have been working hard on subtraction (it's kind of a big shift for some to remember to "take away"), we finished our first "How to" book together, we worked in small groups and wrote out the steps of "How to brush your teeth".   We're also focusing on the writing conventions (uppercase letter at the beg, lowercase letters for the rest of the words, spaces and a period).  They are doing a great job!

  

During "fun Friday" we watched a video about a super builder who who was an architect.  She created food, buildings and even Star Wars creations with Legos!  We created our own towers and talked about what we need to make them stand up.  Here are some creations...

February will be a busy month!  Our 100th day is approaching!  If we don't have any snow days it will be February 11th!  Be on the lookout for information about a 100th day project!

I will also be sending home the class list for Valentine's cards this week.  Please make sure your child brings a card in for each student.  If you'd like to address the card with names you may or if you prefer to have your child just sign the card you can.  Our party will be on  February 14th (this is also an early release day) 11:40 dismissal.  Please remember to send a "party in a bag" for child's snack.

January

 Happy New Year!!  It's great being back with the kids!  It sounds like everyone had a wonderful vacation and time off!  Here are some pictures from our winter party.  Many thanks to our helpers Mrs. Bricker, Mrs. Burek, Mrs. O'Brien and Mrs. Morray.  The kids had a fun time!  Thanks again for the class gifts and the many other gifts!  So appreciated!

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We have been working on CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words such as hat, pig, wet etc.  I showed them a strategy to help them sound out the words using their arm tapping each sound.  Ask your child to show you how tap out some words.  

This week we will be working on a new genre of writing!  We will begin informational writing (or "how to" writing).  This is my favorite type of writing to do with the kids.  When writing these, we will be using 4 important words... first, next, then, and last.   One of our books will be "How to get dressed for the snow" (hopefully this will help you at home and me at school!)   :-)

We continue to work on addition and making combinations of numbers.